Foster children: Apply for help for education in full-time care
If you can't make sure your child is doing well in your home, then your child may be living with a foster family temporarily or for a long time.
Description
Helping to raise in full-time care means that your child lives in another family and is cared for there. Persons with custody are entitled to assistance with education if an education in the best interests of the child is not guaranteed and the assistance is suitable and necessary for his or her development. Which foster family your child lives with and for how long depends, for example:
• Age of the child
• Your child's stage of development
• Your child's attachments
• Possibilities of improving your parenting conditions
The foster parents are selected by the Youth Welfare Office together with you.
Only suitable people can become foster parents and take in your child.
Relatives (e.g. grandparents) can also be foster parents.
The help for education in full-time care can be temporary or permanent. It is a type of benefit for educational aids. It may also apply to young adults.
Information for Kassel: Pflegekinder
The joint specialist unit of the city and district of Kassel performs the following tasks for both youth welfare offices:
- Recruitment, preparation and qualification of suitable foster families
- Placement of a child in a suitable foster family
- Advice, exchange of experience and further training for foster families
- Supervision of special educational foster families
We offer regular information evenings for interested families who can imagine taking in a foster child as part of an educational assistance program, at which the requirements for recognition as a foster family as well as the financial and advisory services offered by the youth welfare office are presented.
We are looking for foster families with special educational needs for children with particular developmental difficulties.
You can find out the dates of the information evenings from the press or directly from the staff at the specialist office.
Die gemeinsame Fachstelle von Stadt und Landkreis Kassel nimmt für beide Jugendämter die folgenden Aufgaben wahr:
- Werbung, Vorbereitung und Qualifizierung von geeigneten Pflegefamilien
- Vermittlung eines Kindes in eine geeignete Pflegefamilie
- Beratung, Erfahrungsaustausch und Fortbildung für Pflegefamilien
- Betreuung der sonderpädagogischen Pflegefamilien
Wir bieten für interessierte Familien, die sich vorstellen können, im Rahmen einer Hilfe zur Erziehung ein Pflegekind in ihrer Familie aufzunehmen, regelmäßig Informationsabende an, bei denen die Voraussetzungen für die Anerkennung als Pflegefamilie sowie die finanziellen und beratenden Angebote des Jugendamtes dargestellt werden.
Für besonders entwicklungsbeeinträchtigte Kinder suchen wir sonderpädagogische Pflegefamilien.
Die Termine der Informationsabende erfahren Sie aus der Presse oder direkt bei den Mitarbeiter/innen der Fachstelle
Contact point
Further detailed information on the various basic and practical questions around the topic of "foster child" in Hesse can be found here.
- Foster children and foster parents(the Family Atlas)
- Youth welfare offices of the districts, independent cities and special status cities
Information for Kassel: Pflegekinder
Contact person
Fachstelle Adoptionen und Pflegekinder Region Kassel
Description
Die Fachstelle Adoptionen und Pflegekinder nimmt für die Jugendämter von Stadt und Landkreis Kassel die Aufgaben des Pflegekinderdienstes sowie der Adoptionsberatung und -vermittlung wahr.
Sie berät zu Fragen der Adoption und Vollzeitpflege und vermittelt Kinder, die nicht mehr bei ihren leiblichen Eltern leben können, in vorbereitete Adoptiv- und Pflegefamilien.
Address
address
Contact
telephone: 0561 1003-1932
fax: 0561 1003-1324
Contact person
Herr Gerhard Ständeke
Frau Petra Weidlich
Frau Christina Förster-Göbel
Frau Carolin Gabriel
Required documents
- Identity card
- If applicable, proof of custody, for example: birth certificate, information from the custody register or decision of the family court on custody.
Forms
Please contact the Youth Welfare Office responsible for you
Prerequisites
- You are the parent or guardian of a child (the person with custody).
- They do not manage to care for and educate the child in such a way that it is good for the child.
- The help for education in full-time care is suitable and necessary.
Basis for legal action
Procedure
- Please contact the responsible youth welfare office.
- The Youth Welfare Office will explain to you in a personal conversation what help is available.
- The Youth Welfare Office tries to support you so that your child can continue to stay with you.
- If the Youth Welfare Office and you come to the conclusion that placing your child in a foster family makes sense, then you can apply for "help with education".
- All participants (you, your child, the caregivers from the caring institution and the youth welfare office) meet for a help plan discussion. The aid plan specifies how the aid is to be designed and which objectives are to be achieved.
- The Youth Welfare Office is looking for a suitable foster family. You can express wishes. If there are several possible foster parents, then they can choose with.
- The Youth Welfare Office regularly checks whether the help is still suitable.
Costs
The costs for the help for education in full-time care are largely borne by the Youth Welfare Office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office.
Area of validity
Hesse
Official approval
Officially approved by Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration on 15.12.2022
Keywords
Pflegekind, Pflegefamilie, Unterbringung